MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the WordPress platform while creating a digital academic identity on the CUNY Commons.  We will focus on the main design and content components of a WordPress site, including theme editing, managing content, plugin capability and image use.  We will create a WordPress site on the …

“Never Mind the Body, Here’s a Gamepad? Considering Embodiment in The Age of Play” Mary Flanagan (Dartmouth College) Sponsored by the English Student Association, Doctoral Students’ Council, GC Digital Initiatives, and CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Opening keynote for “Minding the Body: Dualism and its Discontents,” an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English Student Association at …

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

Poverty, YouTube and Representation: A Conversation Cheap and accessible digital technologies have changed how we tell stories and voice opinions in public, as well as who gets heard. Yet many people fighting to move out of poverty don’t share stories online—some don’t have access, and even if they do, may be so used to being …

From March 1-6, JustPublics@365 will host a summit, “Re-Imagining Scholarly Communication for the 21st Century.” How is the web changing the way we produce knowledge, engage with publics beyond the academy and work for social justice? What does it mean to be a scholar in the digital era? How is the measure of scholarly impact …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

In a previous era, scholarly impact was measured exclusively through things like publishing in academic journals with high ‘impact factors’ and counting the number of citations of those publications. The digital era raises important opportunities, and challenges, for new ways of measuring scholarly impact.  This new way of thinking about scholarly impact is referred to …

Professor Anthea Butler is a renowned scholar of religion and a public intellectual who engages broader publics beyond the academy.  In an hour-long conversation, Graduate Center Provost Chase F. Robinson and Professor Butler will discuss what it means to be an intellectual in the digital age, how this is changing scholarship, and what it all …

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

This workshop will introduce the triple threats of digital research management: citation managers, cloud storage, and annotating tools, with a focus on the best ways to organize and back up your research.  We will cover a range of options and comparative benefits between them, including Zotero, Sugar Sync, Evernote, Drop Box, and Google Drive. Level: …

"NoSQL Databases" Sharon Barr, VP of Engineering, COUCHBASE NoSQL Database Server The presentation will also be streamed: please go to videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu. Once there, and the stream is started, there will be an active link in the “Live Videos” box on the upper right hand corner.  You can click on that link and will be brought …

According to Wikimedia, 87% of Wikipedia editors are men and are most commonly white men in their mid-twenties. Countless groups have wondered about the bias that this creates on what has become the first place most people turn for information. As part of a nationwide event, a group of us will meet at the Graduate …

Speaker: Anthony Babinec, President of AB Analytics Synopsis: Neural networks are one of the new statistical tools that data mining or machine learning has provided for prediction and classification and ""deep learning."" (The name ""neural"" is just an analogy; these are computer programs and have nothing directly to do with biology.) This talk will discuss …

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

This workshop will act as a Part II to our March 12 workshop, a broad overview of available tools for research management. In this workshop, we will focus on the best practices for using three specific tools: Zotero, Evernote, and Dropbox. Samples from Graduate Center students who use these tools in their own work will …

NML welcomes all GC students and faculty to its monthly meeting to discuss topics related to our digital projects and to see current students presentations. One of the day's presenters: Sam Freeman, Computer Science Sam will discuss his past and upcoming digital work at the Lab as it relates to his dissertation. http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/people/graduate-students-faculty/samwell-freeman/ http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/projects/current-projects/welike2draw/

Anne Balsamo (The New School) Title TBA Graduate Center, CUNY, Room TBA Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies and Professor of Media Studies at The New School for Public Engagement. She is a national leader in media studies, scholar and media-maker whose work links cultural studies, digital humanities, and interactive media. …

Speaker: Ryan Baker, Teacher's College Synopsis: Professor Baker will explore how data mining methods can be used in educational research. Using examples from his own research, Dr. Baker will show how data mining has been used to detect different student behaviors. This workshop will also show how data mining can be a predictive and interpretative …

Archives, Books and Databases for Scholarly Research:  An Orientation to Resources at the New York Public Library co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center Mina Rees Library The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue is a historical research library to which Graduate Center scholars have full and complete …